Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >More precisely, it specifies that a response follow the text being responded >to and that you not quote text you are not responding to. A better term might >be "interspersed bottom posting".
Good formal term. ;-) >The standard Internet posting style is to quote each snippet that you are >responding to and to follow it with the response, not quoting anything else. >If you do that, then the reader can see the context without scrolling through >large amounts of extraneous material. Just curious, while I agree 100% with what you wrote, where is that standard written? I seem to recall that in a previous thread, that standard was mentioned, but could not find it. Oh, as usual, many thanks for your educational posts. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht Well, did I followed your 'standards' properly? ;-D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
